Learn more about the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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